Another Flash CS5 Custom Component Quirk
In my attempt to make my custom components compatible with Flash CS5 from CS4, I found that my Inspectable parameters that were Objects were not working, and in fact would cause all parameters that come after it to not work.
Before I continue on with the main topic here, I just want to note that regardless of what order you define your Inspectable parameters, Flash reads them in Alphabetically by the variable name. So when I say the parameters that come after the Object parameter, I mean all those that come after it Alphabetically.
To get right down to it, the problem ended up being that I defined my parameter’s defaultValue property with single quotes rather than double. CS4 didn’t ever care about this, but it seems CS5 is a lot more picky about how you define things. Here is the before and after:
BEFORE (broken):
[Inspectable (name="Parameters", variable="ButtonParameters", type="Object", defaultValue='command:"",event:undefined,frame:1,group:undefined,scene:undefined')]
AFTER (fixed):
[Inspectable (name="Parameters", variable="ButtonParameters", type="Object", defaultValue="command:'',event:undefined,frame:1,group:undefined,scene:undefined")]
Notice how I just switched the single quotes with double quotes in the defaultValue property. Hope this helps someone who is pulling their hair out.
